Let get this straight. You post a Scope Video about Carriers getting killed by rats and now you are nerfing them?

WTS Useless Cap Pilot.

Make the Fighters assignable from the same grid, just like regular drones. Carrier leaves -> Fighters unassign and follow.

This forces the Carrier to stick its neck out a bit and not cower near shields.

I think its a difficult decision which CCP has to take.

Because:
- a Carrier isnt a frontline ship
- the fighters or fighter bombers doing all the work not the ship itself

on the other side i saw how Brave use the Skynet tactic on the receiving end and yeah its annoying. You lost ship but you cant catch the ceptor and if you warp to the carrier POS hes all ready inside or he puts the password in.

My opinion is that CCP should only allow Fighter assist only for min. Cruisers or BC and or above. Fighter Bomber assist only to BS and above. They also should limit the Fighter/Fighter Bomber assist to max 5 per assistet ship.

No reason to have assign if you are ongrid tbh

Alltho carrier irl project power over great distance and aren't supposed to be a direct danger.]

Kind of sad to see ccp killing it how lore and realistic is concerned.

Carriers have crap scanres, so assigning to a fast-locking ship would get the fighters to apply damage faster.

Instead of just "Delegating control" of fighters, how about the carrier or super pilot takes direct control of the fighters, remotely controlling them, and having the character camera follow the fighters. this will mean force projection throughout a system, but will leave the capital vulnerable because of split attention. Fighters are also expensive, and being flown around without an actual ship makes them targets. using a type of siege module to "assume control" of a squadron of fighters, will add awesome mechanics to the game, making the capital vulnerable to attack.

"scenario" Pilot A is flying a navy harbinger, and jumps through a gate into a hostile system. the gate is bubbled but no hostiles are on it, but from D-scan it is clear that the locals are ratting. Pilot B is assisting a corp member with a drone haven, flying a squadron of fighters along side him in the site, ( while his carrier is sitting outside of a pos) Pilot B warps the fighters to the bubbled gate to buy his corp member time to get to safety. As the fighters land on the gate, Pilot A instantly attacks them, quickly destroying several fighters. with his corp member now safe, pilot B warps his squadron back to his carrier, and de-activates the " squadron control module". when the cycle finishes ( lets say 30 second cycle time) his camera is directed back and he resumes control of his carrier, and burns back into the bubble. Pilot A gets a few fighter killmails, while Pilot B takes some losses, ( if 3 fighters die, that's roughly 60 mil ) but his corp mate gets to safety.

This leads to more tactics, more gameplay, more risk vs reward. more content for attacking players, as killing fighters gives killmails, and direct pvp. Act like each fighter is a module, where you can either group them or split them up on different targets. Clicking the module icon for a group engages them on that target. This may seem too powerful, but 15 fighters costs around 300 million isk as it is, losing an entire squadron will be costly, and fitted correctly, even a Destroyer can be a threat. In addition, the carrier is completely vulnerable to attack until the remote module cycle time as completed. If the module is ended while a squadron is still out, the squadron will attempt to warp back to the carrier, but if any are tackled, they will auto agress like standard drones

we could fit modules on the carrier that give the fighters certain abilities, such as fighter webification support module, giving each fighter a 5% velocity web. or interdiction support module, giving each fighter .1 warp scramble strength, " 10 fighters = 1 point. If this seems too safe, perhaps the remote control module will also set off a beacon in system, allowing anyone to warp to them at any time.

The carebear tears in here are legendary.

10/10, would read this thread again.

Thank you for fixing this garbage, Fighter Assist was ruining roaming completely.

Assign fighters and fighters warp should not be removed, it will destroy the feeling to fly a carrier.